An Act to amend the Canada Revenue Agency Act (reporting on unpaid income tax)

Bill S-217 in 45-1 was a Senate Private Member's Bill amending the Canada Revenue Agency Act (S.C. 1999, c. 17) to require expanded public reporting on unpaid federal taxes by sector and amount tier. The Parliamentary Budget Officer's 2022 federal tax-gap analysis estimated approximately $25 billion in annual federal corporate-tax avoidance plus $7 billion in personal-tax non-compliance (totalling approximately $32 billion in federal tax-gap losses annually). The bill called for the CRA to publish anonymized tax-gap data by industry sector, by income tier, and by enforcement-action category. Builds on the 2024 CRA modernization plan launched by then-Revenue Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau. Did not pass second reading.